I, Daniel Blake
Ken Loach’s most recent work, about a British widower who, after losing his job due…
The Wedding Plan
Set in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, this is a tale of a thirty-plus-year-old woman abandoned by…
Certain Women
Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and Kristen Stewart play characters whose tales in three loosely interconnected…
Graduation
A Romanian film (by the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days – Cristian Mungiu) about…
Maudie
It’s got a bleak Canadian setting (mid-20th century rural Nova Scotia), a true story as inspiration…
Baby Driver
Ridiculous plot – a baby-faced expert driver for a criminal gang who must listen to…
The Wall
Two American soldiers in Iraq, pinned down in the desert by an unseen expert Iraqi…
Chuck
An enjoyable fictionalized version of the life of Chuck Wepner (nicely portrayed by Liev Schreiber),…
The Belko Experiment
The theme was more interesting to me than how it played out in this film…
Chasing Trane
An interesting documentary about the legendary and brilliant saxophonist, John Coltrane, whose musical influence is…
Risk
A new documentary by the director (Laura Poitras) of the impressive Citizen Four (the 2014 doc about…
Wonder Woman
A female superhero who really doesn’t need a man to save the world – what…
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the US government brought criminal charges against…
It Comes at Night
My reaction at the end of this psychological horror story was: WTF. (Please excuse my…